NZ Tells Japan S Whalers to Stay at Home

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NZ tells Japan’s whalers to stay at home

TRUE/FALSE: Look at the article’s headline and guess whether these sentences are true (T) or false (F):

a. / New Zealand wants Japanese tourists to stay in Japan. / T / F
b. / A Japanese research expedition wants to kill over 1,000 whales. / T / F
c. / Whalers will hunt a whale that has been protected for four decades. / T / F
d. / NZ’s leader said the whales are for supermarkets, not research. / T / F
e. / The whaling fleets are already being followed by environmentalists. / T / F
f. / Greenpeace will track the whalers six months from now. / T / F
g. / A whaler was killed last year in the jaws of a whale. / T / F
h. / The whalers accused Greenpeace of belonging to Al Qaeda. / T / F

SYNONYM MATCH: Match the following synonyms from the article:

1. / fleet / a. / ban
2 / expedition / b. / following closely
3. / intends / c. / war of words
4. / moratorium / d. / voyage
5. / deception / e. / obstruct
6. / controversy / f. / lie
7. / disrupt / g. / armada
8. / hot on the heels of / h. / insincerity
9. / showdowns / i. / plans
10. / hypocrisy / j. / clashes

GAP FILL:Put the words into the gaps in the text.

New Zealand’s Prime Minister Helen Clarke has told a Japanese whaling ______to stay at home and not head to the______to hunt for whales. She ______the whalers of lying to the world by pretending to be on a scientific research expedition. Japan’s whale-hunting ships left for the Southern Hemisphere on November 18th, led by the 8,000-ton Nisshin Maru. It intends to hunt and kill over 1,000 whales, including 50 of the protected humpback whale. It is the first time anyone has hunted this species since a 1963 ______put it under international protection. Although the ______has protected the creatures for four______, their numbers are still only at 30 percent of those before commercial whaling began. Ms Clark said the research was a “deception” and that most of the whale meat would end up in Japanese supermarkets. / Antarctic
accused
decades
moratorium
fleet
ban
The whaling fleet will be surrounded by ______for the next six months. Environmentalists have vowed to ______the expedition as much as possible and their ships are now heading to the Antarctic. A Greenpeace activist Dave Walsh told the Associated Press that his ship was already hot on the heels of the fleet. He said he would shadow it in the South Pacific and try to ______the number of whales caught. Last year’s hunt ended in the death of one of the whalers following a fire on the Nisshin Maru. There were many dangerous ______between______groups and the whaling ships, including one instance of a Japanese vessel being rammed. The fleet’s leader Hajime Ishikawa called Greenpeace environmental terrorists. "Their______is unforgivable...We must fight against their ______and lies," he said. / reduce
hypocrisy
disrupt
environmental
controversy
violence

DISCUSSION: Write the discussion questions below.

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ARGUMENTS FOR AND AGAINST WHALING: Make notes below.

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